tosan

High school English class 1967. It seems to be more appropriate every year...

TERRA FIRMA

It started as a barren vast
Where nothing grew and nothing passed
Its hills were black, its crevices wide
Where nothing lived and nothing died

Its purpose was to bear a child
Bedecked, beloved, bemused, beguiled
And although it had just been born
It created for itself the Almighty scorn

It ended as a barren vast
Where nothing grew and nothing passed
Its hills were black, its crevices wide
Where something lived and something died